Age of Exploration Review

His crew was the first to circumnavigate (sail around) the world.

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortex

A new type of ship capable of sailing in the open ocean.

• astrolabe

• compass

• canoe

• caravel

A device to help sailors determine their location using stars.

• compas

• astrolabe

• compass

• caravel

Western Europeans sought new trade routes to Asia to avoid these two groups.

• French and Italians

• Muslims and Italians

• Muslims and Romans

• Greeks and Persians

He was a Portuguese explorer and the first European who reached India by sailing south around Africa.

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernan Cortes

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco da Gama

He established a school of navigation in Portugal.

• Prince Henry

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco da Gama

This European country claimed and settled the Great Lakes area of North America and the Mississippi River down to New Orleans.

• England

• Spain

• Portugal

• France

The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Globalization

The science of map making.

• caravel

• cartography

• compass

• astrolabe

A device that shows the direction north.

• compass

• astrolabe

• caravel

• cartography